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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers && meaning in UNIX Post 302966058 by RudiC on Sunday 7th of February 2016 07:22:30 AM
Old 02-07-2016
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Originally Posted by Archana Batta
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I know that "&" holds the result of current pattern match.
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That's true only in regexes of certain text processing commands like sed or awk. In the shell (that your are dealing with in the rest of the post), depending of contexts, it means
- send command / pipe to background
- duplicate file descriptors for redirection
- bitwise AND
- certain behaviour of case statements
and some other very special meanings/behaviours.
 

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fc-match

FC-MATCH(1)															       FC-MATCH(1)

NAME

       fc-match - match available fonts

SYNOPSIS

       fc-match [ -svV? ] [ --sort ] [ --verbose ] [ --version ] [ --help ] [ font-pattern ]

DESCRIPTION

       fc-match  matches  font-pattern	(empty pattern by default) using the normal fontconfig matching rules to find the best font available.	If
       --sort is given, the sorted list of best matching fonts is displayed.  With --verbose, the whole font pattern for each  match  is  printed,
       otherwise only the file, family and style are printed..

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

       -v --verbose
	      Print whole font pattern for each match.

       -? --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -V --version
	      Show version of the program and exit.

       -s --sort
	      Displays sorted list of best matching fonts.

       font-pattern
	      Displays fonts matching font-pattern (uses empty pattern by default).

SEE ALSO

       fc-list (1).

       The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was updated by Patrick Lam <plam@csail.mit.edu>.

								    05 May 2008 						       FC-MATCH(1)
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